Trump administration imposes a 25 percent tariff on high-end chips

Apple's Siri AI will be powered by Gemini The White House names AMD MI325X and NVIDIA H200, in particular. Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks about the Vera Rubin AI platform during a question and answer session with reporters at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 6, 2026. President Trump has signed a proclamation imposing a 25 percent tariff on "certain advanced computing chips," the White House has announced. As notes, the administration previously threatened much bigger and broader tariffs for chips. Trump even said that he was going to impose a 100 percent tariff on companies unless they invest on semiconductor manufacturing in the United States.